About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Friday, September 07, 2007

September 7......

September 7 is the 250th (251st in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 115 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Children "Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you." — Robert Fulghum

Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Demonizing Democrats or Don't Kill All the Liberals "We have uncovered 132 scandals. And we're not proud of the fact we uncovered scandals; and we're not proud of the fact that we have 80 lawsuits against this Clinton-Gore administration; and we're not proud of the fact that this Clinton-Gore administration is not gone—it has simply moved from the White House to the Democratic National Committee." — Larry Klayman, Chairman of Judicial Watch. Alicia Montgomery, "Where Clinton hating never dies; At a conference of conservatives, a new Republican president is no reason to forget about the last one," salon.com, 2-20-01

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "Sure, [pesticides] are going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway." — Othal Brand, member of Texas pesticide review board

Thought for the day: "One man tells a falsehood, a hundred repeat it as true."

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY

South Pole Lunar Eclipse

Credit & Copyright: Robert Schwarz (South Pole Station)Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation

● 1724 - The first American congregation of Dunkards (German Baptists) gathered in Philadelphia, PA.

● 1776 - The world's first submarine attack occurs when the submersible craft American Turtle attacks the British flagship Eagle in New York harbor. The American Turtle, was large enough to accommodate one operator, and entirely hand-powered. The wooden submarine attached a time bomb to the hull of the Eagle, and departed unnoticed. An explosion results, but no serious damage occurs as the poorly secured bomb had drifted away from the ship.

● 1785 - The Sunday School Society was formed in London, under the leadership of Robert Raikes. It provided weekly Christian tutoring for the poor. Eventually 3,730 schools were formed, and their success ultimately inspired the founding in 1824 of the American Sunday School Union.

● 1800 - Zion AME Church dedicated (NYC)

● 1807 - Protestant Christianity first came to China when English missionary Robert Morrison, 25, arrived on this date. (Catholic missions had first penetrated China in the 16th century with the arrival of Jesuit Matteo Ricci in 1582.)

● 1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Borodino - Napoleon defeats the Russian army of Alexander I near the village of Borodino.

● 1813 - The nickname "Uncle Sam" was first used as a symbolic reference to the United States. The reference appeared in an editorial in the New York's Troy Post.

● 1818 - Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.

● 1821 - The Republic of Gran Colombia (a federation covering much of present day Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador) was established, with Simón Bolívar as the founding President and Francisco de Paula Santander as vice president.

● 1822 - Dom Pedro I declares Brazil independent from Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga river in São Paulo (National Day).

● 1833 - Hannah More dies in Bristol, England. Wrote the two-volume "Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education."

● 1845 - St. Louis, Missouri, became the site of the first Hebrew synagogue to be built in the Mississippi Valley.

● 1860 - American painter Anna Mary (Robertson Moses) was born in New York. Today it is known as "Grandma Moses Day."

● 1864 - American Civil War: Atlanta, Georgia, is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.

● 1876 - In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are surrounded by an angry mob and are nearly killed.

● 1880 - George Ligowsky was granted a patent for his device that threw clay pigeons for trapshooters.

● 1888 - Edith Eleanor McLean became the first baby to be placed in an incubator.

● 1888 - Jesse James' last holdup.

● 1901 - The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.

● 1907 - Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.

● 1907 - Sutro's ornate Cliff House in San Francisco destroyed by fire

● 1909 - Eugene Lefebvre (1878-1909), while test piloting a new French-built Wright biplane, crashes at Juvisy France when his controls jam. Lefebvre dies, becoming the first 'pilot' in the world to lose his life in a powered-heavier-than-air-craft.

● 1911 - French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.

● 1914 - New York Post Office Building opens to the public

● 1915 - Former cartoonist Johnny Gruelle is given a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll.

● 1917 - Birth of Jacob Lawrence, Atlantic City, N. J. A leading painter in chronicling African-American history and urban life. Among his most celebrated works will be the historical panels "The Life of Toussaint-Louverture" and "The Life of Harriet Tubman."

● 1958 - First meeting of the New York Daughters of Bilitis, pioneer lesbian organization.

● 1958 - The first cathedral of the Syrian Orthodox Church in the U.S. and Canada was dedicated in Hackensack, NJ. The American archdiocese for this branch of Orthodoxy was created the previous year by Syrian Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius Yacoub III.

● 1960 - Positive thinker Rev. Norman Vincent Peale warns that any Catholic President would be under "extreme pressure from the hierarchy of his church." {JFK is elected anyway. Wonder what he might say about Huckabee or Romney.}

● 1963 - FDA announces that Dr. Steven Durovic's "anti-cancer" drug Krebiozen, administered to over 5,000 patients in 13 years, is really the common amino acid creatine, which has no anti-tumor effects whatsoever.

● 1965 - China announces that it will reinforce its troops in the Indian border.

● 1965 - Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlight, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Pirahna on the Batangan Peninsula.

● 1968 - For the first time, feminist protesters interrupt the Miss America beauty pageant in Atlantic City, N.J.

● 1970 - An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland.

● 1970 - Fighting between Arabic guerillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan.

● 1977 - G. Gordon Liddy was released from prison. He had been incarcerated for more than four years for his involvement in the Watergate conspiracy.

● 1977 - In Wisconsin's first judicial-recall election, outraged Dane County (Madison) citizens vote judge Archie Simonson from office. He called rape a normal male reaction to provocative female attire and modern society's permissive attitude toward sex, which he said is why he sentenced a 15- year-old to just one year of probation for raping a 16-year-old girl. He is replaced by Moria Krueger, the first woman judge elected in Dane County history.

● 1977 - The Torrijos-Carter Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The US agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.

● 1978 - Callaghan accused of running scared; The UK Prime Minister announces he will not call an election this autumn, prompting criticism from the Opposition.

● 1978 - The Who's drummer, Keith Moon, 31, dies in London after overdosing on Hemenephirin, a prescription drug which was supposed to help him with alcohol. {Possibly not intended to be such a permanent solution.}

● 1978 - While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Giullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from in a specially-designed umbrella.

● 1979 - 5 day MUSE concert against nuclear energy opens at MSG, NY

● 1979 - The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for USD $1 billion to avoid bankruptcy.

● 1984 - Epidemic 'spreads to second hospital'; Three more people die in the food poisoning epidemic at hospitals in Yorkshire, bringing the total number of deaths to 22.

● 1986 - Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.

● 2004 - The Serbian government backs a decision by Minister of Education and Sport Ljiljana Čolić to require the teaching of both creationism and evolution in schools.

● 2005 - First presidential election was held in Egypt.

● 2006 - British Prime Minister Tony Blair gave in to a fierce revolt in his Labour Party and reluctantly promised to quit within a year.

● 2006 - Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage confirmed he was the source of a leak that had disclosed the identity of CIA employee Valerie Plame, saying he didn't realize Plame's job was covert. {Questions still rest on how he came by the information in the first place.}

● 2006 - Robert Earl Jones, American actor, father of James Earl Jones (b. 1910)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:● St. Alcmund● St. Anastasius the Fuller● St. Augustalus● St. Carissima● St. Cloud (Clodoald)● St. Diuma● St. Eupsychius● St. Eustace● St. Evurtius (Heortius)● St. Faciolus● St. Gratus of Aosta● St. Grimonia● St. Hilduard● St. John of Lodi● St. John of Nicomedia● St. Madalberta● St. Marek Krizin● St. Memorius● St. Pamphilus● St. Regina● St. Tilbert● Bl. John Duckett● Bl. John Maid● Bl. Louis Maki● Bl. Ralph Corby

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for August 25 (Civil Date: September 7)● Return of the relics of Apostle Bartholomew from Anastasiopolis to Lipari.● Apostle Titus of the Seventy● Saints Barses and Eulogius, Bishops of Edessa, and St. Protopgenes, Bishop of Carrhae, confessors.● St. Menas, Patriarch of Constantinople.● St. John the Cappadocian and St. Epiphanius, patriarchs of Constantinople.● Repose of Abbess Magdalena of Sevsk Convent (1848)● Repose of Benjamin of Valaam (1848).

● Aydın Turkey - Independence day 1922

● Brazil - Independence day (from Portugal, 1822).

● Mozambique - Victory Day.

● Pakistan - Defence Day (Pak-Air-Force Day) Since 1971

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"● US : National Grandparents' Day - ( Sunday )● Namibia, South Africa : Settlers' Day - Monday )● US, Canada, Guam, Virgin Islands : Labor Day (1894) - ( Monday )

IN FICTION

● 1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of The Engineer's Thumb"

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